Wiggy59

Hi there!! i didnt see there was a second page running, thought i was left for dead! well, i updated his graphics card which fixed the problem he was having, but even putting the game to lowest graphics he still had about 8 fps so essentially, updating his graphics card fixed the problem, and now has created another one. His specs are much better than mine, and even i can play it lowest graphics with a constant 50fps but he can no longer play the game due to his fps being slashed by the new update :L broken out of one problem straight into another :P sorry for replying like a month later

Ok just installing it now :D, fingers crossed ey! will post results... :) ---------- Post added at 12:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:12 AM ---------- Ok installed it, and hasnt changed a thing :( im beginning to hate switchable graphics -_- it has ruined a great game! But thanks for the help Horus, if you can think of anything else im willing to try anything! :P goodnight ---------- Post added at 12:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:23 AM ---------- Ah actually, i almost forgot, today we updated 6600m (found another forum for starcraft despite not actually playing or owning the game) but they said to update the graphics card, so we did, and lo, the game looked normal again, but we dropped from 50 - 60 fps on medium/high to 12 - 15 fps on Lowest but no other game was affected (we tried Medal of honor tier one and Red orchestra 2) both of which highest graphics played smoothly with high FPS, so arma2 and arma OA were the only games to be seriously affected by this update. Just one step forward two steps back.

hi there! i have the same problem although mine is not as easy, i have an AMD rather than an ATI, i have a different interface for CCC.exe than the ATI, i have called lenovo support to ask them how to disable the Intel graphics 3000 card, and all he did was confirm what i said at the start which was "you cant disable the intergrated in the bios system". I have also tried disabling the intel graphics card in Device manager which essentially just made the computer look like its in safe mode (you know everythings made bigger) and then i tryed to run arma a2 with just the one graphics card running, and i got an error that basically said that it couldnt be ran by that video device so then i enabled the intel and disabled the AMD and the same error, so essentially at the moment my laptop has to run both video cards :L oh and i run the game in high performance (which makes the AMD run) and no dice, it still makes the particles change colour. So essentially im stuck. oh and got the newest update of arma and latest drivers. so yep, kinda stuck but thanks for forwarding me here Horus, now i know what the problem is! :) so anyone got any ideas?? :P cheers again Horus

Thanks, that is exactly what's going on in my brother's game. As you Can imagine, it's extremely annoying to the extent it inhibits gameplay. Appreciate the help, he does have a switchable graphics and we're just sorting it out now

true, sorry i was in a rush to fix it today, ive copied this to troubleshoot forums, so moderators feel free to delete this :)

hi all, basically, my brother installed arma 2, arma 2 OA (with expansions) on his day old Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E520 Laptop and basically, whilst ingame, smoke particles (wether it be from exaust fumes, explosions or simply firing a machine gun and also lights from lighthouses and street lights) seem to change colour dramatically, like yesterday whilst in a hind D rocket smoke trails were red, and on impact to the ground it flashed green, blue and purple, also street lights are usually blue and purple, he just installed OA this morning and has the same problem, he has tried swapping between the two graphics cards with no avail. We've also updated the graphics driver, yet again with no avail, and basically cannot find anything on the internet to fix this problem so im calling out to the community for a helping hand. his specs are Core i5 2410M 2.3GHz (turbo 2.0 up to 2.9GHz), 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 15.6" LED, DVDRW, AMD HD6630M + Intel 3000, Webcam, Windows 7 Professional 64 and suggestions are warmly welcomed! i will again post some screenshots in a reply in just a few minutes. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/hindd2.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/338/hindd3.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/hindd4.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/hindd.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/833/rocketcar.jpg/

hi all, basically, my brother installed arma 2, arma 2 OA (with expansions) on his day old Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E520 Laptop and basically, whilst ingame, smoke particles (wether it be from exaust fumes, explosions or simply firing a machine gun and also lights from lighthouses and street lights) seem to change colour dramatically, like yesterday whilst in a hind D rocket smoke trails were red, and on impact to the ground it flashed green, blue and purple, also street lights are usually blue and purple, he just installed OA this morning and has the same problem, he has tried swapping between the two graphics cards with no avail. We've also updated the graphics driver, yet again with no avail, and basically cannot find anything on the internet to fix this problem so im calling out to the community for a helping hand. his specs are Core i5 2410M 2.3GHz (turbo 2.0 up to 2.9GHz), 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 15.6" LED, DVDRW, AMD HD6630M + Intel 3000, Webcam, Windows 7 Professional 64 and suggestions are warmly welcomed! i will again post some screenshots in a reply in just a few minutes. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/hindd2.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/338/hindd3.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/hindd4.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/hindd.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/833/rocketcar.jpg/